Scrum Master

SAMSON ANDERSON

Chicago IL, *****. Email; ************@*****.*** phone; 312-***-****

SUMMARY

Innovative and solution driven scrum master with 6yrs + experience, capable of effectively guiding scrum teams to attain astounding levels of productivity while promoting self-management and cross-functionality among teams. A servant-leader with impeccable communication skills and an excellent ability to influence a team to achieve set goals.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud computing: Azure-DevOps, identity access management, S3, EC2, VPC

Applications/Software: JIRA, Confluence, Rally, MS Office, VM Ware, ServiceNow

Collaboration tools: Slack, MS Teams, Mural board, Trello board

CORE COMPETENCIES

•Passion for learning new skills

•Servant Leadership/team player

•Problem and conflict resolution

•Excellent customer service capabilities

•Proactive and positive-minded

•Process Improvement

•Team building and coaching

•Communication skills

WORK HISTORY

Tide-Edge LLC November 2020 - till date

Scrum Master

Help to remove impediments and ensuring that spring goals are achieved as a team.

Track the teams progress using metrics such as burndown and burnup chats on Jira

Facilitated scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews and retros

Coach product owner and team on product backlog items refinement and prioritization

Resolve conflict within teams

Guide the team and organization on how to use Scrum practices and values to drive end value

Serve as the team’s Scrum expert.

Foster an enabling work environment that promotes transparency, trust and cohesion

Protect the team from external interference.

Capital One July 2018 – November 2020

Scrum Master.

Coached the team to be self-organized and cross-functional

Managed dependencies and helped remove impediments to the Team’s progress

Ensure that goals, scope, and product domain are understood by everyone on the team

Created a healthy working relationship between the development team and the product owner

Influenced and grew the team to live the scrum values daily

Collaborated with other scrum masters to ensure dependencies are identified early and handled promptly

Facilitated transparency via continuous communication and conflict resolution.

Effectively manage user story estimation to eliminate ambiguity

Esurance Sep 2015 – July 2018

Scrum Master

Identified and managed risks to mitigate impediments and negotiated dependencies within and across scrum teams.

Facilitated Team Events including Daily Stand-ups, Iteration Planning, Refinement sessions, Iteration Reviews, and Retrospectives.

collaborated with Product Owner and Technical leads to understand business problem, product(s), and ensure features and user stories are clear, concise, prioritized, and understood by every member of the Agile team.

Establish and maintain open and clear lines of team communication to facilitate status transparency.

Work with peer Scrum Masters to ensure team effectiveness

Guides team in prioritizing work based upon value creation

Assesses the scrum team’s velocity for the upcoming sprint and tracks the sprint health

Serves as a servant leader while ensuring the scrum team has all it needs to deliver on sprint goals

Collaborated with the product owner to write user stories that meets the invest criteria

EDUCATION

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign MBA (ongoing)

University of Lagos – Lagos, Nigeria

Bachelor of Science: Industrial Chemistry (2004)

International Scrum Institute – USA

Certified Scrum Master

Scrum Alliance – USA

Certified Scrum Master

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